The Life Quotes
The majority of people perform well in a crisis and when the spotlight is on them; it's on the Sunday afternoons of this life, when nobody is looking, that the spirit falters.
Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count; everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted.
It's much easier to tame a wild idea than invigorate one that has no life in the first place.
It's very important in life to know when to shut up. You should not be afraid of silence.
I have a vision of life, and I try to find equivalents for it in the form of photographs.
When you are optimistic, when you are not complaining, when you look at the good side of your life, everybody loves you.
Never try to convey your idea to the audience - it is a thankless and senseless task. Show them life, and they'll find within themselves the means to assess and appreciate it.
Whatever you focus upon, increases......When you focus on the things you need, you'll find those needs increasing......A grateful perspective brings happiness and abundance into a person's life.
The people that tell you what you enjoy is wrong, or come in your life and tell you what you're wearing is wrong are miserable because they focus on the things that they don't like.
Pick up a yardstick to measure your life against anyone else's, and you've just picked up a stick and beaten up your own soul.
Even if I'm completely unsure, I'll pretend I know exactly what I'm talking about and make a decision.
When life is good and we have no problems, we can almost let ourselves believe we have no need for God. But in my experience, sometimes the richest blessings come through pain and hard things.
If you’re not someone who has a natural and effortless love for yourself, it’s hard to let go of your desire to please other people, and that’s really not an ingredient for a happy life.
For me, the essence of a medicine man's life is to be humble, to have great patience, to be close to the Earth, to live as simply as possible, and to never stop learning.
The Life of the intellect is the best and pleasantest for man, because the intellect more than anything else is the man. Thus it will be the happiest life as well.
If I have brightened up one single sad childhood, then I have at least accomplished something in my life.
Enthusiasm is the electric current that keeps the engine of life going at top speed. Enthusiasm is the very propeller of progress.
I prefer Buddhism because it gives three principles in combination, which no other religion does. This is what man wants for a good and happy life. Neither god nor soul can save society.
Live a wild, generous full, exciting life – blessing those around you and seeing the good in all.
Time Like a petal in the wind Flows softly by As old lives are taken New ones begin A continual chain Which lasts throughout eternity Every life but a minute in time But each of equal importance
If you take out of your statutes, your constitution, your family life all that is taken from the Sacred Book, what would there be left to bind society together?
I have spent the better part of my adult life standing up and fighting for working families.
The whole of my life, what they wanted was honesty. They were not concerned with cultured football, but with triers who gave one hundred percent.
You are God's highest form of creation. You are a living breathing creative magnet. You have the ability to control what you attract into your life.
He who has calmly reconciled his life to fate, and set proud death beneath his feet, can look fortune in the face, unbending both to good and bad; his countenance unconquered.
Decide upon your major definite purpose in life and then organize all your activities around it.
Everything in life is a checklist, whether it's building a birdhouse or building a kitchen. If you don't have a checklist, you're much more likely to forget something.
I think I don't take myself too seriously. You know as far as, it's a fun life. I take my music serious, but I like to have fun.
When you're experiencing what's happening right now, all of a sudden everything that happened to you in your entire life melts away.
I have come home at last! This is my real country! I belong here. This is the land I have been looking for all my life, though I never knew it till now... Come further up, come further in!
Will someone else's life be brighter tomorrow, because of what you have done today?
Trials make the promise sweet, Trials give new life to prayer; Trials bring me to His feet, Lay me low, and keep me there.
If your ride through life is not as smooth as you would like it to be, blaming the road may not be the answer.
Now the two primal Spirits, who reveal themselves in vision as Twins, are the Better and the Bad, in thought and word and action. Between these two the wise ones chose aright; the foolish not so.
A new philosophy, a new way of life, is not given for nothing. It has to be paid dearly for and only acquired with much patience and great effort
Every man looks out for himself, and he has the happiest life who manages to hoodwink himself best of all.
One reads books in order to gain the privilege of living more than one life. People who don't read are trapped in a mine shaft, even if they think the sun is shining.